Bluetooth telemedicine Processor for multichannel biomedical signal transmission via mobile cellular networks

  • Authors:
  • M. F.A. Rasid;B. Woodward

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Loughborough Univ., UK;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

One of the emerging issues in m-Health is how best to exploit the mobile communications technologies that are now almost globally available. The challenge is to produce a system to transmit a patient's biomedical signals directly to a hospital for monitoring or diagnosis, using an unmodified mobile telephone. The paper focuses on the design of a processor, which samples signals from sensors on the patient. It then transmits digital data over a Bluetooth link to a mobile telephone that uses the General Packet Radio Service. The modular design adopted is intended to provide a "future-proofed" system, whose functionality may be upgraded by modifying the software.